About
Ralph Schroeder was formerly Professor in the School of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University in Gothenburg (Sweden). He completed his PhD about Max Weber at the LSE in 1988. His publications include Rethinking Science, Technology and Social Change (Stanford University Press, 2007) and Being There Together: Social Interaction in Virtual Environments (Oxford University Press, 2010). He is also the author of ‘An Age of Limits: Social Theory for the 21st Century’ (Palgrave Macmillan 2013) and, with Eric T. Meyer, of ‘Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities’ (MIT Press 2015).
His most recent book is ‘Social Theory after the Internet‘ and he is also working on big data in the social sciences.
Areas of Interest for Doctoral Supervision
Big data, virtual environments, digital media, right-wing populism
Research Interests
Virtual environments, big data, digital media, right-wing populism, sociology of science and technology